The New London Day 8/30/2023 By Carrie Czerwinski, Special to The Day Stonington ― Residents of the Wequetequock Cove area want to know how fecal coliform bacteria and other harmful contaminants are getting into their wells and the cove. In addition, they are questioning why the cove has such poor water quality and what can be […]
Long Island Sound Study 6/8/2023 Every 10 days from mid-spring to mid-fall George Hoffman gets up early in the morning to meet three of his colleagues with the Setauket Harbor Task Force. At the harbor around 5:45 am, they join the captain of a small boat who takes them out on the water to monitor […]
Harbor Happenings Newsletter—Volume 12Spring/Summer 2023 Click on graphic to read. https://www.stonington-ct.gov/sites/g/files/vyhlif3851/f/pages/2023_harbor_newsletter_final_5-11-23.pdf
The New London Day 5/4/2023 Mystic ― Chad Frost has noticed more flooding during rainstorms and significantly more tidal flooding over the past 20 years that he has worked in Mystic. Frost, a landscape architect with Kent + Frost Landscape Architecture and Design, travels along River Road to get back and forth between his office […]
Save the Sound It all starts with the footwork. “Your feet should be about shoulder-width apart, maybe a little wider,” said Ameera Khan, who went on to detail the proper placement of the dominant hand, and the non-dominant hand, the release, and the follow-through. It was a tutorial in technique that her audience seemed to […]
The New London Day 4/26/2023 Mystic ― The Town of Groton is inviting people to attend an open house on the downtown Mystic resiliency and sustainability plan on May 2 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Union Baptist Church. The town is developing a plan to improve the resilience of downtown Mystic, which will identify […]
New London Day Hartford ― A bill being considered in the General Assembly would create a working group to study strategies for restoring ecologically important eelgrass along the shoreline. “Eelgrass is an important fish habitat that has declined markedly,” State Sen. Heather Somers, R-Groton, said in written testimony. “Eelgrass provides perfect bedding for tiny organisms […]
The New London Day SCOTT GAGER OBITUARY Stonington – Scott Freeman Gager of Stonington passed away Jan. 14, 2023. Scott was born Jan. 20, 1959. He graduated from Stonington High School and attended Thames Valley Community College. He worked for the Town of Stonington and later for United Water and Suez/Veolia as Chief Maintenance Mechanic […]
Connecticut Post eEdition Progress cited in individual bays and near open Atlantic Ocean, overall trend indicates plateau or decline in water quality By Vincent Gabrielle BRIDGEPORT — Regional nonprofit environmental organization Save the Sound released its biennial Long Island Sound Report Card this week at Captain’s Cove Marina. The report combines 14 years of water […]
Stamford Advocate, Vincent Gabrielle Nov. 18, 2022 BRIDGEPORT- Regional nonprofit environmental organization Save the Sound released its biennial Long Island Sound Report Card this week at Captain’s Cove Marina. The report combines 14 years of water testing results in Long Island Sound and four years of testing in over 50 bays. “There’s millions of people […]
